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Show Steel playing role in paper making Steel is playing a major role iin speeding up the process of making paper. This will be accomplished ac-complished through the fabrication fabri-cation of a giant rotating pulp washer, expected to be the largest lar-gest ever built, capable of turning turn-ing out 1,000 tons of Kraft pulp a day. The finishing steps are now being completed on this washer wash-er by Eimco Corp. of Salt Lake City, using steel produced at U. S. Steel's Geneva Works. The first step of paper-making is to cook ground-up wood until it becomes pulp. The pulp, which consists of 99.5 per cent water, is then fed into a washer, wash-er, which purifies the pulp and separates a large amount of the water. This new washer being built by Eimco will be able to handle 25,000 gallons of this pulp-water pulp-water per minute, at an average aver-age operating speed of three rotations per minute. The 28-foot-long, 13.5-foot-wide pulp drum plus the supporting structure will be shipped out this week by rail to the Great Southern Land and Paper Co. of Cedar Spriings; Ga. Great Southern makes every type of paper from newsprint to the finest rag content bond. Kraft pulp is often made into paper bags and cardboard boxes. Eimco has orders for several similar washers, many of which are to be built with high-strength high-strength steel produced by U. S. Steel Corp. Two pulp washers, wash-ers, using USS Cor-Ten steel, are in the final stages ofcon-struction ofcon-struction and are expected to be shipped to paper companies |